If you want to use Wifi modules such as Edimax EW-7811Un with your Raspberry Pi, you will need the appropriate driver. For unknown reasons, the kernel-included driver for this module does not work. Luckily, Realtek is providing an open-source driver…Read more

The Level One WCS-0030 is a (relatively) cheap camera with wired and wireless network interfaces running Linux. We wanted to modify the firmware in order to install custom software, but only non-interesting ports are open on the network interface. Consequently,…Read more

To extend the disk space of my late-2007 iMac, I am currently looking for an external hard drive. To achieve acceptable speed and latency, it has to be a Firewire 800 drive. Furthermore, it has to be reasonable quite since…Read more

Update: Added information on how to close screen without loosing Teamviewer. Teamviewer is a remote desktop solution comparable to VNC. However, a significant difference is that Teamviewer offers a central server which allows to traverse NAT and also control PCs…Read more

Update: Added hint to sort the array beforehand. I work as researcher and one of my day to day duties is processing measurement results and producing some nice graphs to make the results visible and understandable. Although most of the…Read more

Introduction The Mikrotik Routerboards are cheap and versatile embedded platforms that can be used for routers, WiFi APs and the like. In a rather wide range of products, I happen to have access to the RB411 and the RB750 two…Read more